ABSTRACT
The examination of the relationship between gender and tourism started not much more than 20 years ago (in contrast to the consideration of gender in geography which goes back to the late 1970s, and of gender and leisure which goes back even further (Aitchison, 2003)). An early collection of research papers was edited by Kinnaird and Hall in 1994, hoping to fi ll a gap in the literature. This was followed by other edited collections, a number of papers in academic journals and reviews of research in the fi eld (Aitchison, 2011; Pritchard and Morgan, 2005; Sinclair, 1997; Swain, 1995; Swain and Hall, 2007; Swain and Momsen, 2002; Wall and Norris, 2003), but I would assert that, even now, gender is very often not specifi cally considered in tourism geographies, or tourism studies more broadly.
